Alibaba Group launched an open-source artificial intelligence model for software development on Wednesday, marking the latest move by Chinese technology companies to compete with U.S. rivals in the rapidly evolving AI sector.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/24/2025
Winning the AI race, according to The White House's "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan," means a whole-of-the-economy reboot. Think semiconductors + power grid + data centers + skilled trades—a fusion of Silicon Valley and Rust Belt dreams.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/24/2025
The announcement of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore at AWS Summit New York comes as organizations struggle to move autonomous AI systems from proof-of-concept demonstrations to applications capable of serving millions of users while maintaining enterprise security and governance standards.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/23/2025
OpenAI and Oracle Corp announced Tuesday they will develop an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding their artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership despite ongoing questions about the viability of the broader Stargate initiative's $500 billion funding commitment.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/22/2025
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Agent, a new artificial intelligence tool that can perform complex tasks by controlling a virtual computer, marking the company's most significant step toward autonomous AI systems that can interact with the real world.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/18/2025
The AI talent wars have reached a fever pitch, and nowhere is that more evident than in the chaotic week that just befell Windsurf, the AI coding startup that became the center of a bidding war between tech's biggest players.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/16/2025
Microsoft is taking a big swing at the future of autonomous AI research—and it's doing it through Azure AI Foundry. The company just put OpenAI’s "deep research" model inside its developer platform, turning what was once a ChatGPT power-user tool into a composable backend engine for enterprise-scale reasoning.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is making a direct appeal to federal, state, and national security agencies with a new suite of AI tools branded "Grok for Government," part of a larger strategy to position the company as a cornerstone of U.S. public-sector innovation.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/14/2025
A week after Elon Musk's AI chatbot went full Nazi, the Department of Defense handed xAI a $200 million contract. The timing says everything about how broken AI deployment has become.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/14/2025
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts worth up to $200 million each to four American artificial intelligence firms—Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI—in a bid to accelerate the deployment of advanced AI capabilities across a range of military and government operations, the Pentagon said on Monday.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/14/2025
Meta Platforms has formally launched Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a new division intended to centralize and accelerate its artificial intelligence development efforts, as it moves to compete more directly with top-tier AI labs including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/08/2025
Anthropic gave Claude complete control over a mini-mart for a month. The results reveal both the promise and peril of AI's economic future. For one month, this humble setup in Anthropic's San Francisco office served as the testing ground for "Project Vend"—an experiment to see whether Claude, the company's flagship AI assistant, could successfully run a small business.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/30/2025
Google DeepMind announced the full release of Gemma 3n, the latest version of its lightweight generative AI model designed specifically for mobile and edge devices, in a move that reinforces the company's emphasis on on-device computing.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025